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  • Contact

    Following the accidental death of his long-time lover Paul, a young gay man, returns to his childhood home to spend time with his extended family. They are in denial about his sexuality, and unaware of his relationship and recent loss. In a world of memories, and where most things are left unsaid, Paul must establish contact with his own tribe.

    Contact

  • Judas Kiss, The

    What sound does a heart make when it cracks? Is there any music that can replicate it? Chris goes to the club with his boyfriend Jude. It’s just another Saturday night out – a few drinks, some laughs, a workout on the dance floor. But it’s not just another Saturday night. It’s a night Chris will never be able to forget. “The Judas Kiss” tells its story entirely through images, without the help of dialogue. The story bounces back and forth in time as Chris’s emotional response to the events of the night unravels. The film is bound together by the sublime music of Handel – the aria, Scherza Infida, unforgettably sung by one of the great singers of our time, the American counter-tenor David Daniels, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Why Handel? Hearts broke in the eighteenth century, just as hearts break now. The sound remains the same.

    Judas Kiss, The

  • Two Minutes After Midnight

    John is a rather shy guy. He goes to a hot, sweaty club late on a Saturday night and spots a guy he fancies. He takes his courage into his hands and tries to chat him up at the bar, but gets a brutal put-down. Retreating to the toilet to recover, John meets an Angel (it happens all the time). The Angel gives him a magic ring and tells him how to use it to get his revenge on the guy at the bar. Think of someone you fancy, turn the ring around your finger three times, and you’ll be transformed into that person’s ultimate fantasy figure. Sound like fun? It is fun! Until two minutes after midnight.

    Two Minutes After Midnight

  • Moment After, The

    A poignant longing for what could have been permeates “The Moment After”, in which Tracey marks his birthday by making a choice from which there’s no turning back.

    Moment After, The

  • All U Can Eat

    Increasingly separated from his place of birth, a 70-year-old Jewish native of Quebec fuses personal and historical memory to create a sense of belonging.

    All U Can Eat

  • Remedy

    Some kind of defense mechanism kept me from appreciating just how horrible he was. I had never been depressed before, sad – heartbroken – bored – yes, but not depressed. I guess it took me a few weeks to stop pretending that there must be some mistake. (LH)

    Remedy

  • Book of All the Dead, Exultations (In Light of the Great of Giving), The

    The Third Region of “The Book of All the Dead, Exultations (In Light of the Great of Giving),” 1976-1994. “Exultations (In Light of the Great Giving)” comprises the following films: “Flesh Angels,” “Barbara Is a Vision of Loveliness,” “Newton and Me,” “Azure Serene,” “Look! We Have Come Through!,” “Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving,” “Sweet Love Remembered,” “Burying the Dead: Into the Light, Trace, Et Resurrectus Est.” For further information, see entries under the individual film titles.

    Book of All the Dead, Exultations (In Light of the Great of Giving), The

  • Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World

    Very much inspired by the statement I consider belongs among the greatest expressions of contemporary religious faith, Simone Weil’s “Faith is the experience that the intelligence is enlightened by love.” (RBE)

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World

  • Cartouche

    A nameplate on a funery monument; a container for explosive powder (cartridge); an inscription of the filmmaker’s name; a touch. “Cartouche” is an attempted elegy, a mnemotechic for a friend who died. Still obsessed with naming and attendant concerns.

    Cartouche

  • Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

    What is given us and draws from us our loving is Goodness itself.

    Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing